One of the biggest problem we have on the political side of this issue is that we didn’t ride herd enough on supposed conservatives (or conservative-leaning moderates, at least) about spending when they were in control. Oh, to be sure, there was always talk about the government spending too much, and spending on useless and counter-productive things, but as long as the debt was grown SLOWLY, it all kind of got swept under the rug.So, to a lot of the folks out there, it’s a “pox on both of your houses” situation, and they’re not wrong, even if there is a difference in degree as to how bad the various sides are.
Any serious reform is going to have to take on herds of sacred cows, and not all on one side of the aisle. I don’t think the current crew in DC is capable of doing that without some changes imposed from the outside.
A little revolution every now and then is not a bad thing. In this case the establishment is in dire need of a wake-up call; too much royalty mentality in both parties.